In the European elections, and then socialists and environmentalists in search of “disillusioned with Macronism”.

Everyone on the left agrees: the beginning of the end of Macronism has been heard, not least because the head of state is completing his last mandate. Then the question arises about him “disapointed” and his “Orphans”. First, on the already bitter initial promises; The other will soon seek a new political bid for 2027, after the second term of the Renaissance founder and organizing principle ends. These voters, once socialists, lost largely to the left in 2017, but also in 2022. All electoral terrain to conquer.

The equation is known. In 2017, a small half of Francois Hollande’s voters voted for Emmanuel Macron. Just over a quarter of them (28%) refer to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In January 2022, a study conducted by the Jean-Jours Foundation showed that the majority of former Francois Hollande voters were ready to vote for Emmanuel Macron again (36%), did not want to vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, but also and above all failed in the big one. uncertainty.

They will eventually win with a wave of “useful votes” – the extent of which is a matter of debate for Capelle – for the La France insoumise (LFI) candidate. Environmentalist Yannick Jadot and socialist Ann Hidalgo will collect 6.4% between them. For some, this is the current weight “Dutch Macronists”, a minority. For others, 2022’s low scores mask much greater potential.

“breach of contract”

As the 2024 European elections approach, a crucial element of this voter’s identity is re-emerging: attachment to European construction.

It is not for nothing that the Greens are on the independent list. In this election, they play their identity, but also the support of that particular voter. Marine Tondelier, National Secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV), thus suggests that she wants to reconnect ” [leur] day and always voter”.

Former national secretary of the party, David Cormand, easily recites Emmanuel Macron’s broken promises: the end “Green Macaron Mirage” According to him, the resignation of Nicolas Hulot as the Minister of Environmental Transition in September 2018, after the end of the pledge. “New World vs. Old”Establishing itself as a federalist player in Europe, changing the promises of individual freedoms. “There are objective reasons for people who might have believed in Macronism to tell themselves that there is a breach of the treaty.”He believes.